It looks like you are getting a 3-dimensional array, with the top level array being an arrayref (in Perl, all nested arrays must be arrayrefs anyway). Data::Dumper essentially prints out the data structure as Perl code which, when executed, would (re-)create the data structure being dumped (ok, manual object instantiation would typically be done in a more readable fashion, but you get the idea...).

(BTW, the representation of the squared brackets of the innermost array has automagically been turned into a fake link, because you weren't using <code> tags... but anyway :)

The two values of the innermost array are a Win32::OLE::Variant object, and a regular string. This means you can access/print the given data structure like this: 

# get the type of the variant, as a number/ID
# (see the docs or Variant.pm for what they represent)
print $v->[0][0][0]->Type(), "\n";

# the stringified value of the object, if scalar
# (for lists, use ->Dim() and ->Get() ...)
print $v->[0][0][0], "\n";

# the string '#N/A Mth Lmt' - nothing special here
print $v->[0][0][1], "\n";

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In case you should ever be getting more than one pair of values, you'll of course want to use loops...  Good luck!

In reply to Re^6: Win32::OLE::Variant Array by almut
in thread Win32::OLE::Variant Array by kevind0718

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